Sharon Gerstel (University of Californian at Los Angeles), “Entering in faith and fear”: emotions and the liturgical arts in Byzantine Greece

Georgios Velenis (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki), Architectural trends in the Middle Byzantine period and the ways of applying them in the Helladic space

Sophia Kalopisi- Verti (University of Athens), Patronage of religious foundations in Middle Byzantine Greece (ca.850-1200): the evidence of church inscriptions and donor portraits

16.00 Discussion

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee and Tea

17.15 – 18.30 Open Lectures

Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher (Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism), Byzantine Greece in the light of recent archaeological finds from large-scale infrastructural and development projects

Amalia Kakisis (British School at Athens) / Demetra Kotoula (British School at Athens), The Byzantine Research Fund’s archives at the British School at Athens: a modern view on the British heritage in Greece